Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America 2006  TV, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Joely Richardson, Stacy Keach, Ann Cusack, Scott Cohen, Justina Machado, David Ramsey, Peter O'Brien, Dwight Wilson II, Steve Bastoni, Jerome Ehlers
Epidemic Intelligence Service's Dr. Iris Varnack (Joely Richardson), Health and Human Services Secretary Collin Reed (Stacy Keach), and Virginia's Governor Mike Newsome (Scott Cohen) join forces when an epidemic of avian flu spreads to human beings in the United States and causes panic among the citizens when millions die.
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Leap of Faith 1992   PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas, Troy Evans, Meat Loaf, M.C. Gainey, John Toles-Bey, Philip Seymour Hoffman
This comedy/drama involves an evangelical preacher (Steve Martin) who is determined to con the locals of a small Kansas town, but his partner (Debra Winger) is leery and tries to get him to leave town.
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The Long Walk Home 1990 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander, Lexi Randall, Richard Habersham, Jason Weaver, Mary Steenburgen
Set in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Dr. Martin Luther King led the boycott of the city's transportation system, the turmoil and racial conflicts are seen through the eyes of two families. Odessa (Whoopi Goldberg) and her husband (Ving Rhames) have three children and she is a maid for the Thompsons (Sissy Spacek and Dwight Schultz), a well-to-do couple. Miriam Thompson becomes an activist for the cause while her husband goes the other direction. A good depiction of an important time in American history.
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No Mercy 1986  R, 108 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbe, George Dzundza, William Atherton, Charles S. Dutton, Ray Sharkey, Bruce McGill, Carl Gordon, Gary Basaraba, Terry Kinney, Marita Geraghty, Aleta Mitchell, Fred Gratton, Dionisio
While posing as hit men to look into a contract out on crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), Chicago cops Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba) run into trouble and Collins is killed. Jillette's search for the assassin leads him to New Orleans where he searches for Michel Duval (Kim Basinger). She was the girlfriend of Paul Deveneux (Terry Kinney) who was also assassinated, and Jillette uses her to find Collins' murderer.
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 South Pacific 2001 TV, 129 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Comedy
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr., Rade Serbedzija, Robert Pastorelli, Jack Thompson, Lori Tan Chinn, Ilene Graff, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Simon Burke, Justin Smith, Steve Bastoni, Kimberly Davies, Craig Ball, Damon Herriman, Peter Lamb
In this made-for-TV remake of the 1958 Rogers and Hammerstein film, Army nurse Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) finds love on a South Pacific island during World War II. Nellie falls in love with French plantation owner Emile Beque (Rade Serbedzija) after first rejecting him because of his past. Meanwhile, Lt. Joseph Cable (Harry Connick Jr.) romances Liat (Natalie Jackson Mendoza), the daughter of Bloody Mary (Lori Tan Chinn), and they enter into a love affair amidst the Bali Ha'i tropical breezes.
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Threshold 1981 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Allan F. Nicholls, Mare Winningham, John Marley, Michael Lerner, Robert Joy, Paul Hecht, Sharon Acker, Jessica Steen, Deborah Turnbull
Utilizing the documentary approach, director Richard Pearce depicts the first artificial heart transplant–performed against the advice of the Ethics Committee chairman.
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Witness Protection 1999  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Shawn Hatosy, Forest Whitaker, Skye McCole Bartusiak, William Sadler, Jim Metzler, Greg Pitts, Leon Russom, Joanna Merlin, Harrison Young, Daniel Zacapa, Greg Lipari, Randy Thompson, Byron Minns
After a failed assassination attempt on his life, South Boston mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore) applies for the Federal Witness Relocation Program. This means that he, his wife Cindy (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and children Sean and Suzie (Shawn Hatosy and Skye McCole Bartusiak) must assume new identities and move to Seattle. They realize very quickly that those things are easier said than done.
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| 1. Country (1984)
2. A Family Thing (1996)
3. Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
4. Heartland (1979)
5. Leap of Faith (1992)
6. The Long Walk Home (1990)
7. No Mercy (1986)
8. No Other Love (1979)
9. South Pacific (2001)
10. Threshold (1981)
11. Witness Protection (1999)
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